>>12448651Congrats OP, you have unlocked the room which contains the biggest elephant.
The global economy and capitalism is all a ponzi scheme. It relies upon the expectation of future earnings created by constant growth fueled by population increase. Anything else is trivially irrelevant.
This is why you will never see any serious attempt at environmental sustainability. Because that means economic sustainability. Which essentially means stagnation followed by a decline in living standards in all metrics.
Technology can offset this an extent, but its insignificant compared to the present status quo.
In the absence of human willingness to address the issue it will be eventually be forced upon us by natural forces, simple maths and science, resulting in a prolonged (over centuries) decline.
